SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 13, 1994
3B
The taste of victory still sweet for Chiefs
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Still aglow over their 24-17 victory over San Francisco, the Kansas City Chiefs had trouble yesterday with coach Marty Schottenheimer's "12 o'clock Rule."
It was even troubling Schottenheimer, who usually insists that everyone put every game out of their minds by midnight Sunday and pour all concentration into the next week's challenge.
"I'm sure my memory doesn't always serve me well," Schottenheimer said yesterday after practice. "But I cannot recall a game I've been involved with in a long, long time where two teams played as hard as the 49ers and the Chiefs. It was quite a contest."
Joe Montana, who threw two touchdown passes and a twopoint conversion pass against his old teammates, was happy to put the confrontation against the 49ers and Steve Young behind him.
"But it still feels pretty good."
"You enjoy it a little bit when you get to watch the game film," he said yesterday. "Other than that, you look at all your mistakes, and you wonder how we played like that and won.
But it still feels pretty good.
After viewing the film yesterday morning, Schottenheimer said he had even greater respect for the 49ers, who were plagued by injuries.
Some might say it was hardly a
fair fight. Not only did the 49ers have to contend with nearly 80,000 full-voiced fans in one of the NFL's noisest stadiums, they were crippled in the offensive line.
On three straight possessions during the decisive stretch in the second half, Young was intercepted twice and fumbled away another scoring opportunity.
The ugly purple bruises on Young's shoulder and his suffering four sacks testified to the fact that for a while the 49ers were reduced to two second-teamers and a third-tier on the offensive line.
The Chiefs' line, in the meantime, was perfectly healthy and intact from last season. And Montana was sacked only once.
"I don't usually use the word gallant in connection with a football game," Schottenheimer said. "But it was a gallant effort by our football team.
"I think for the most part our offensive line was pretty good. You have to look awhile to find better young prospects than the two the 49ers have inside. Dana Stubblefield is playing great."
But even a day later, Montana was still slightly bugged by one thing — the way so many fans and media representatives boiled the contest down to a battle between two quarterbacks and nothing else.
"This is a team, and it took a team effort to do it," he said. "They deserve all the credit."
Call by Big Ten officials is ruled an error
CHICAGO — The Big Ten said yesterday that officials mistakenly awarded a touchdown to Stanford in the Cardinal's 41-41 tie with Northwestern, but the error won't change the outcome of the game.
The Associated Press
Mistake altered the outcome of Saturday's Stanford game
It was the third time in a year that the conference acknowledged that mistakes by Big Ten officials altered the result of a football game.
"We don't have an instant replay or access to go upstairs and look at a monitor and reconsider the call," David Parry, the league's supervisor of officials, said from his Michigan City, Ind., home. "There is not much to do but live with the judgment."
On Saturday, Stanford's Mike Mitchell fumbled as he was about to cross the goal line, and Northwest-recovered the ball in the end zone for an apparent touchback. But officials conferred and decided that Mitchell had crossed the goal line before losing the ball.
After reviewing ESPN replays, however, the conference said yesterday that "game officials were not in position to see Mike Mitchell's fumble between the 2- and 1-yard lines." The league said that resulted in "an obvious error in judgment" and "the Wildcats should have been awarded possession."
The Big Ten said decisions of game officials are final, but "when obvious errors of judgment or rules application have a significant affect on the outcome of the game, the conference believes public acknowledgement of the error is appropriate."
The officials might eventually be disciplined.
Parry said, but the league wouldn't make such action public.
"The officials are rated and graded, and records are kent. I can assure you of that." he said.
On two occasions last year, Illinois lost because of bad calls.
In Arizona's 16-14 win Sept. 18, two Illinois fumbles that were picked up and run back for touchdowns should have been ruled dead at the points of recovery.
Illinois lost to Oregon 13-7 the following week, but the Big Ten said officials should have let stand linebacker Simeon Rice's TOUCHDOWN after he stripped the ball from a Ducks' running back. Instead, they ruled that the Oregon player's forward progress had been stopped..
Illinois got an apology in both cases, but the losses were not reversed.
Drug use suspected in swimming world records
By Robert Millward The Associated Press
ROME — A World Championship that produced 10 world records has left swimming in a daze. With the suspicion of doping looming large again, the sport doesn't know whether to celebrate or hide in shame.
"I have never seen a situation where, if you win, you are tarred with doing something crooked," Australian coach Don Talbot said.
Describing performance-enhancing drugs as "the single greatest threat to the progress and integrity of the sport,"18 coaches signed a declaration calling on swimming's governing body, FINA, to act now to clean up the sport.
tion China by name, most of the doping accusations have been pointed at China's women swimmers, who won 12 of the 16 events and broke five world records at the Championships, which ended Sunday.
He said there was a danger of clean athletes following the same course as the cheats, simply to keep up with them.
Dennis Pursley, national swimming director of the United States team, was among the 18 who called on FINA to institute testing on 24 hours' notice.
Although the coaches didn't men-
"They would rather accept losing or getting out of the sport than cheat to win.
"It's a huge concern," Pursley said. "I think the majority of athletes won't be drawn into that.
"But I am not naive to think that there aren't a few of those who would possibly resort to that.
"At the same time, we have seen that clean athletes can win whether it's a level playing field or not."
The non-Chinese who broke world records at the Championships were Germany's Franzi Van Almsick, 200 freestyle.
American Tom Dolan won the 400 individual medley
Other non-Chinese world-record setters were Australians Samantha Riley, 100 breaststroke; and Kieren Perkins, 400 freestyle; and Finland's Jani Sievinen, 200 medley.
Of the Chinese, Le Jingji set records in the 50 and 100 freestyle. He Chiong broke the 100 backstroke record, and the relay teams won the 400 freestyle
and medley in world record times.Le Jingyi won five gold medals,including three in relays.
Chinese divers surprisingly won four of the six events, but the first gold went to Zimbabwe's Evan Stewart, the first medalist from his country.
Yu Zhuocheng was the only male Chinese diver to win, collecting gold in the 3-meter event.
In synchronized swimming, American Becky Dyroen-Lancer became the third swimmer to earn three golds at one World Championships, winning the solo, duet and team events.
World record-holder and defending champion Jeff Rouse of the United States was upset by Spain's Martin Lopez-Zubero in the 100 backstroke.
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